Well,.....
If you are doing an oil infusion or a fresh harvest infusion, I think breaking the buds up or better yet grinding down to good joint makings is a good idea.
With alcohol, I don't think it helps much. Although, the batch I documented was loose ground because I wanted good samples for testing. I never know.
My thoughts and they may be BS. Carrier oils are viscous and tend to coat the material and penetrate/be absorbed into it slowly. Agitation has less effect. Alcohol is thin and penetrates the material better and faster. Agitation does a better job of moving the oil out of and away form the material. I think of it as washing the cannabinoids out.
The batch with the co2 in the alcohol had a lot of co2 absorbed in it. I think it is helping with the extraction.
The strained only and the filtered residue I collected was 2.2g from a starting weight of 29g. Under a 30X loop it looks like resin glands and shaft skeletons and not much else. It is not the slightest oily. I can't say for sure what I am seeing but that is what it looks like to me.
Thoughts?
If you are doing an oil infusion or a fresh harvest infusion, I think breaking the buds up or better yet grinding down to good joint makings is a good idea.
With alcohol, I don't think it helps much. Although, the batch I documented was loose ground because I wanted good samples for testing. I never know.
My thoughts and they may be BS. Carrier oils are viscous and tend to coat the material and penetrate/be absorbed into it slowly. Agitation has less effect. Alcohol is thin and penetrates the material better and faster. Agitation does a better job of moving the oil out of and away form the material. I think of it as washing the cannabinoids out.
The batch with the co2 in the alcohol had a lot of co2 absorbed in it. I think it is helping with the extraction.
The strained only and the filtered residue I collected was 2.2g from a starting weight of 29g. Under a 30X loop it looks like resin glands and shaft skeletons and not much else. It is not the slightest oily. I can't say for sure what I am seeing but that is what it looks like to me.
Thoughts?